Friendfeed v. Twitter: Half The Followers In Five Months — Twitter is still far larger than its much younger competitor Friendfeed in aggregate terms. But an interesting trend is developing - many longtime Twitter users are noticing that the number of followers they have on Friendfeed is growing far more rapidly than on Twitter.

The disruptive potential of GPS on the iPhone 3G — A recent survey showed nearly half of respondents rated GPS as a deciding factor in favoring an iPhone 3G, which should be good news for makers of GPS software and services. Or not. Forbes has an interesting article that suggests …

Think Before You Voicemail — Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they'll stop using it. — When I first started out in the real world in the mid-nineties voicemail was an important productivity tool. I remember people talking about the pros and cons of various enterprise voicemail systems …

The Yahoo Circus Pulls Into Sun Valley Next Week — Starting Tuesday this week, all the major players in the Yahoo-Microsoft-Everyone-And-Their- Mother circus will line their private jets up in Sun Valley for the high-powered 26th annual Allen & Co. confab of tech and media moguls.

As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll — SAN FRANCISCO — Alex Payne, a 24-year-old Internet engineer here, has devised a way to answer a commonly asked question of the digital age: Is my favorite Web site working today? — In March, Mr. Payne created downforeveryoneorjustme.com, as in, “Down for everyone, or just me?”

Adobe Goes After FreshAIRApps For “AIR” Usage — Adobe AIR is a platform that can be utilized to create rich desktop applications. Twhirl and AlertThingy are two recent examples of applications built on AIR. — freshAIRApps is a community resource that offers a directory of AIR applications …

Thank you, Adobe Reader 9! — Recently I wrote a blog entry about bloated software, and how much better Foxit PDF reader was than Adobe Reader. But I was using Adobe Reader 8. Little did I know how much superior version 9 would be. — For starters, version 8 was a 22 MB download.

Europe drafts law to disconnect suspected filesharers — France has suggested an amendment to the pan-European Telecoms Package, which would bar broadband access to anyone who persists in illegally downloading music or films. — Last month, the government of Nicolas Sarkozy insisted on a similar …

Kinderplex crisis reveals Google founder's fumbling and fibbing — Joe Nocera of the New York Times has taken note of Google's childcare crisis. A brief recap: After taking its childcare programs in-house, at the behest of Google executive Susan Wojcicki, the sister-in-law of founder Sergey Brin, Google hiked its rates 70 percent.